People always talk about the German big cats being awesome, when in reality the StuG was a far more important vehicle. It was cheap, reliable, had good firepower, good mobility and it was versatile. It could be used as an assault gun, tank hunter, for ambushes, as mobile PAK gun, and as an infantry support vehicle.
I recall watching a documentary on Stalingrad and every time the German vets being interviewed mentioned the Stug, their eyes teared up. One even went so far as to say Stugs saved their lives more time than he could count. Fun fact: the stug was not part of the armoured corp but rather part of artillery. Amazing vehicle that gave birth to the tank hunter class.
@lucas82 - just think, if they had churned out more Stug lll’s and Panzer lV’s and not bothered with messing about with Tigers, Panthers and Jagd Tigers, what a difference it would have made?
Gotta love the StuG! As a scale modeller, it is one of my favourite subjects, and I think I have built every iteration of the StuG at least twice. Great video, and thanks for the upload.
Hv u tried putting those foliage camo on ur models yet? How? Lichen won't look good as they look like lungs in model RR. U need to make every tiny branches n glue the leaves on dem carefully, nut repeating the pattern. Just copy from the films here in this video? Branch by branch, leaf by leaf?
@@schutendohkji548 Hi! I have tried to apply realistic foliage quite a few times, but it never looks authentic or real when I finish. It is either out of scale, or just does not look right. I have not given up, but it’s been a while since I have attempted it. Thanks for the tip, and I will try your suggestion on the next one. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺!
@@garylawless3608 Go 4 it. U'll need a lots of patience, branch by branch; leaf by leaf, to copy the prototype photo. Then do same painting them or spraying the green-yellow leaves 1st, then brush brown or tan on the branches? Hope u'll post ur result w ur fav tank n let me know the posted utube URL here. Note: Bigger the model scale, EZr it is to do above. Beers From the USA
Great video and thanks for sharing this, absolutely clear footage and it really shows how important the Stug was to the troops. I would like to recommend a great book about a Anti -Tank Commander Hans Hoeller of the 21st Panzer Div.D-Day Tank Hunter, its a great read for any avid history reader's out there. Also Das Reich by James Lucas, this covers the story of the 2nd SS Div and has some great combat with Stugs and shows the how they being greatly outnumbered held their own. Great video and thanks again, take care regards Scott.
🤘 Agreed, "D - Day Tank Hunter" is an interesting read and one of the latest WWII memoirs from a surviving German soldier looking to heal & pay homage to his comrades. From combat in N. Africa to commanding an anti-tank platoon in northern France ( sheds light on another armored self propelled gun, the little known modified French Somua MCG half track w/ 75mm Pak 40 gun), getting thru the Falaise Pocket, surviving capture, and the end of the war, he shares his honest thoughts & experiences.
Great video! I've loved Stugs for yeats. My next one is going to be a larger scale StuH. My fave of faves. You can never have too many Stugs around. You never know when a Soviet Tank Brigade is going to show up. Or when the infantry needs some strong points taken out. A Stug crewman's life, short but always entertaining.. The Stug Life!
The original StuG III Ausf A-E mounted a short 7.5cmL/24 for infantry support, built from 1940. However the 7.5cm KwK.40 could not be mounted in a turret that would fit the Panzer III hull, so the improved StuG III Ausf Fwas born in September 1942. Mounting the gun in a similar armored casemate, which allowed the tanks to remain in front line service until the end of the war. It was often substituted for Panzer IV tanks in the Panzer Divisions frontal armour increasing to correspond with the later Panzer IVs.
This is an IMPRESSIVE film!! And that's coming from 59 year historian who's seen 1000s. A great many thoughts & emotions run thru my mind as I watched this......the power & devastation, vastness of USSR, how history repeats itself (Napoleon n same territory), harshness of weather, difficulty surviving, needlessness, just instantly come to mind.
Nice footage. My old eyes see more detail on 1/2-speed: 4:06 Oversized winter tread. Bent edge (also 5:53). 3:28 With modern drones, how this move-to-contact will be more tense (closed hatch, eyes up, spread)? 3:55 Defilade ranging. 4:36 Skirts a la 'Road Warrior'. Saw similar in OIF 2004, before 'kit' arrival. 4:48 Cycle in that ice-mud. 5:46 Punched holes. 9:27 Excels in 'crouch' (low silhouette, foliage biased right for left-slit driver). 10:24 Line formation ambushed from left(?). 12:45 *!@$ beyond recognition.
This is what a modern army looks like slowly advancing in a real battle where every soldier has the license to kill one another. Notice how the infantry or regular grunts walk behind the tank as they bith advance.
Very impressive shots. I knew almost none of them. Good that they are only shown here as pictures. Remember the millions of dead from all nations! War, war is always the same...
A really formidable armored vehicle. The Sfug lll with its added armor, low profile and the tank killing gun made this turretless tank very dangerous to those unlucky to be in the firing line of this vehicle on the battle field. I believe this is one of many positive things to come out of that rather dark time in German history. I really admire and respect the engineering that went into building this assault gun but I guess in this case a tank destroyer.
Does anyone know how they painted the Stugs and other armor white because I figured white paint was hard to come by on the Eastern Front during that winter. I was just wondering cause they would have needed a lot of white paint to paint armor, aircraft, guns, etc.
Although white paint, sometimes with a touch of blue, was applied in workshops, the vast majority of vehicles had whitewash, not paint, applied in the field using buckets, brushes, mops and whatever was close at hand. In spring whatever whitewash that was left was removed by scrubbing with water.
In those city scenes the StuG almost looked like a moving heap of rubble. I also wonder how long its going to take until an AI can clean up the picture even more, colour it in and make it look like a video from the 2020s.
Well not footage but in the Finnish Movie .... 1944: The Final Defence (Tali-Ihantala 2007) on RUclips ...they use the Finnish Stugs...they look awesome
Some interesting footage for sure, but the title is not entirely accurate when it says "late". Many of the examples shown are F/8s and even many of the Gs are early models with bolted frontal armour and older rear idler. There are later models close to the end, with zimmerit, saukopf mantlets and added concrete armour, but I think I saw only one example with the hole for the coaxial M.G. in the mantlet.
to this day how they were able to build such things so quick high quality with bombing there plants lack of material could not do it today under these conditions
People always talk about the German big cats being awesome, when in reality the StuG was a far more important vehicle. It was cheap, reliable, had good firepower, good mobility and it was versatile. It could be used as an assault gun, tank hunter, for ambushes, as mobile PAK gun, and as an infantry support vehicle.
It was the brain child of Eric Von Manstein. He wrote the specifications
I recall watching a documentary on Stalingrad and every time the German vets being interviewed mentioned the Stug, their eyes teared up. One even went so far as to say Stugs saved their lives more time than he could count.
Fun fact: the stug was not part of the armoured corp but rather part of artillery.
Amazing vehicle that gave birth to the tank hunter class.
@@mdsf01No matter what corps it was in,it was used in every type of situation on the Russian front.
@@mdsf01 it indeed saved their lives as it showing up to pummel a building prevented them from having to pummel the building themselves
@lucas82 - just think, if they had churned out more Stug lll’s and Panzer lV’s and not bothered with messing about with Tigers, Panthers and Jagd Tigers, what a difference it would have made?
StuG was a brilliant war machine ! Good gun , low silhouette and very versatile! A real support for infantry .
Gotta love the StuG! As a scale modeller, it is one of my favourite subjects, and I think I have built every iteration of the StuG at least twice. Great video, and thanks for the upload.
Scale modeling the StuG is great.
I'm glad you liked the video.
Hv u tried putting those foliage camo on ur models yet? How? Lichen won't
look good as they look like lungs in model RR. U need to make every tiny
branches n glue the leaves on dem carefully, nut repeating the pattern. Just
copy from the films here in this video? Branch by branch, leaf by leaf?
@@schutendohkji548
Hi! I have tried to apply realistic foliage quite a few times, but it never looks authentic or real when I finish. It is either out of scale, or just does not look right. I have not given up, but it’s been a while since I have attempted it. Thanks for the tip, and I will try your suggestion on the next one. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺!
@@garylawless3608 Go 4 it. U'll need a lots
of patience, branch by branch; leaf by leaf,
to copy the prototype photo. Then do same
painting them or spraying the green-yellow leaves 1st, then brush brown or tan on the
branches?
Hope u'll post ur result w ur fav tank n let me know the posted utube URL here.
Note:
Bigger the model scale, EZr it is to do above.
Beers From the USA
Indeed, I only have 3!
StuG the foot soldier's friend, thanks for the tanks.
You're welcome.
Brilliant stuff! Definitely my favourite WW2 channels on RUclips. The Tank Museum and Yarnhub are a close second.👍😎🇦🇺
Thank you buddy, glad you enjoy and love this footage as much as I do.
Stug life :)
I love using them in Flames of War gaming!
Where do I get the merch?😂
🤹♂️😂
@hanzup4117 = Death in war.
Beautiful restoration!
Nice StuG footage collection 💥👍💥
Amazingly clear footage. Bravo
Great Combat Footage ❤
Fabulous StuG action!! Keep bringin' it! 😃
Excellent footage, great sound.
Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱.
Great looking tank! Like the low profile! Looks like a modern piece of equipment
StuGs were not tanks as such; depending on the country's nomenclature they were assault guns, self-propelled guns or tank destroyers.
Impresionante documento !!!
Excellent restored video, very clear! 👍👍👍💯💪
Glad you liked it!
Great video and thanks for sharing this, absolutely clear footage and it really shows how important the Stug was to the troops. I would like to recommend a great book about a Anti -Tank Commander Hans Hoeller of the 21st Panzer Div.D-Day Tank Hunter, its a great read for any avid history reader's out there. Also Das Reich by James Lucas, this covers the story of the 2nd SS Div and has some great combat with Stugs and shows the how they being greatly outnumbered held their own. Great video and thanks again, take care regards Scott.
🤘 Agreed, "D - Day Tank Hunter" is an interesting read and one of the latest WWII memoirs from a surviving German soldier looking to heal & pay homage to his comrades. From combat in N. Africa to commanding an anti-tank platoon in northern France ( sheds light on another armored self propelled gun, the little known modified French Somua MCG half track w/ 75mm Pak 40 gun), getting thru the Falaise Pocket, surviving capture, and the end of the war, he shares his honest thoughts & experiences.
Great video. Always nice when I run into footage I've never seen before.
Glad you liked it.
Indeed.
Great video! I've loved Stugs for yeats. My next one is going to be a larger scale StuH. My fave of faves. You can never have too many Stugs around. You never know when a Soviet Tank Brigade is going to show up. Or when the infantry needs some strong points taken out. A Stug crewman's life, short but always entertaining.. The Stug Life!
Happy scalemodeling.
some of the best footage. TY
Thank you.
The original StuG III Ausf A-E mounted a short 7.5cmL/24 for infantry support, built from 1940. However the 7.5cm KwK.40 could not be mounted in a turret that would fit the Panzer III hull, so the improved StuG III Ausf Fwas born in September 1942. Mounting the gun in a similar armored casemate, which allowed the tanks to remain in front line service until the end of the war. It was often substituted for Panzer IV tanks in the Panzer Divisions frontal armour increasing to correspond with the later Panzer IVs.
This is an IMPRESSIVE film!! And that's coming from 59 year historian who's seen 1000s.
A great many thoughts & emotions run thru my mind as I watched this......the power & devastation, vastness of USSR, how history repeats itself (Napoleon n same territory), harshness of weather, difficulty surviving, needlessness, just instantly come to mind.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Great video! 💪👍👍👍💯@@PanzerInsight
😎👍Very totally cool and very truly great awesome footage of the StuG 3's in action indeed Sir's!👌.
Loved how the music became ominous once the urban combat footage began
This is where the fun part begins
*StuG Life !*
Sehr schöner film über die Stug III.Die Stug war recht flach und konnte sich gut in der Umgebung anpaßen.
Ehm...DAS Sturmgeschütz....
Thank you for making this very interesting video !
Nice footage. My old eyes see more detail on 1/2-speed:
4:06 Oversized winter tread. Bent edge (also 5:53).
3:28 With modern drones, how this move-to-contact will be more tense (closed hatch, eyes up, spread)?
3:55 Defilade ranging.
4:36 Skirts a la 'Road Warrior'. Saw similar in OIF 2004, before 'kit' arrival.
4:48 Cycle in that ice-mud.
5:46 Punched holes.
9:27 Excels in 'crouch' (low silhouette, foliage biased right for left-slit driver).
10:24 Line formation ambushed from left(?).
12:45 *!@$ beyond recognition.
Great footage and interesting to watch 👍 thanks for sharing 👍
Sturmgeschutz 3+4
Beste wapens van de Duitse strijdkrachten.
En niet te vergeten de ME109G en Pak 43/88mm kanonne.
I pick the fw 190 over the bf 109g.Faster and more heavily armed.Hi from Australia
Great footage mostly of things I have never seen. Thanks
You're welcome.
This is what a modern army looks like slowly advancing in a real battle where every soldier has the license to kill one another. Notice how the infantry or regular grunts walk behind the tank as they bith advance.
Amazing footage !
Thanks for sharing
You're welcome.
Wonderful video!!!
Man, so long ago and like it happened yesterday at the same time.
Thanks for this 👍🇳🇿
Very impressive shots. I knew almost none of them. Good that they are only shown here as pictures.
Remember the millions of dead from all nations!
War, war is always the same...
A really formidable armored vehicle. The Sfug lll with its added armor, low profile and the tank killing gun made this turretless tank very dangerous to those unlucky to be in the firing line of this vehicle on the battle field. I believe this is one of many positive things to come out of that rather dark time in German history. I really admire and respect the engineering that went into building this assault gun but I guess in this case a tank destroyer.
Excellent 👌
Great job on the video.
Glad you like it.
Just outstanding.
Very cool 💯
Salut to the designers and the makers of Stug.....💚🧡💙💜❤️
great stuff!
Great film. I've never seen this one before. What was the armor profile of the Stug?
SAD FILM BUT SOO REAL .....EXCELLENT JOB BY THE STUGs ...EXCELLENT VIDEIO
Thank you.
Si cool🎉
Great combat footage!
It's incredible to see too many people standing around like trees while gunfire was happening. Things have changed.
Stug a game changer tank🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
german armour technology was far ahead of its time and can still be seen in some models today
Does anyone know how they painted the Stugs and other armor white because I figured white paint was hard to come by on the Eastern Front during that winter. I was just wondering cause they would have needed a lot of white paint to paint armor, aircraft, guns, etc.
Although white paint, sometimes with a touch of blue, was applied in workshops, the vast majority of vehicles had whitewash, not paint, applied in the field using buckets, brushes, mops and whatever was close at hand. In spring whatever whitewash that was left was removed by scrubbing with water.
@@Dalesmanable I was leaning on that it was some sort of whitewash instead of paint. Thanks for the info
And chalk
Your cut around 11.57 was just a second or so late for delicate modern sensibilites
......😂😂😂
In those city scenes the StuG almost looked like a moving heap of rubble. I also wonder how long its going to take until an AI can clean up the picture even more, colour it in and make it look like a video from the 2020s.
Nice Video
Where could I find any WW2 footage of Finnish Stugs in action?
There was at least one in this video. I spotted the Finnish style swastika.
@@NedkaRokonokova I know I’ve seen more than a brief clip - can’t recall were
Well not footage but in the Finnish Movie .... 1944: The Final Defence (Tali-Ihantala 2007) on RUclips ...they use the Finnish Stugs...they look awesome
I only have that clip and the full version on this channel and I never found anything else.
Los pequeñas grandes tanques que dijeron mejores resultados en combate 💪💪
Somebody forgot to tell the loader that those empty shell cases could be sold on Ebay !
StuG is super cool
Unfortunately taking one home as a war trophy is a bit difficult as they are rather too large to fit in your duffel bag.😂
Some interesting footage for sure, but the title is not entirely accurate when it says "late". Many of the examples shown are F/8s and even many of the Gs are early models with bolted frontal armour and older rear idler. There are later models close to the end, with zimmerit, saukopf mantlets and added concrete armour, but I think I saw only one example with the hole for the coaxial M.G. in the mantlet.
What game is this?.
Les allemands étaient en avance technologique pour cette époque.
How many of these could they build in a day ?
Pas assez en 1941 et 1942
🙂🤟✌️💪👍👌👏😎🇹🇭
его называли еще свинным рылом за переднею маску очень выносливый работяга!
to this day how they were able to build such things so quick high quality with bombing there plants lack of material could not do it today under these conditions
Brilliant 88MM
it all seems pretty cool till i think about them shooting at our boys....
Commodore64 of german army.
That music is really irritating.
Videos without music can be found on Patreon.
More fake sound effects than a Spaghetti Western.
All are original German newsreel sound effects from WW2.
@@PanzerInsight Maybe so, but a lot of it is dubbed in with the footage and wasn't natively or even originally part of it.
@@darrellidthey re-used footage and sound over and over so it's hard to tell what sound and footage is orginal and you don't know also.😅
These were cheap,er to build than a whole tank.